1930 in Ireland

Events from the year 1930 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * Governor-General: James McNeill
 * President of the Executive Council: W. T. Cosgrave (CnaG)
 * Vice-President of the Executive Council: Ernest Blythe (CnaG)
 * Minister for Finance: Ernest Blythe (CnaG)
 * Chief Justice: Hugh Kennedy
 * Dáil: 6th

Events

 * John Dulanty begins a 20-year spell as Ireland's High Commissioner (later, Ambassador) to London.
 * 31 December – Mayo County Council is dissolved by ministerial order for refusing to appoint Miss Letitia Dunbar-Harrison to the position of county librarian on the grounds that she is a Protestant.

Arts and literature

 * 1 July – George Shiels' play The New Gossoon is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
 * 28 August – a painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, found in an Irish cottage, is authenticated.
 * 17 November – W. B. Yeats' 1-act play The Words Upon The Window Pane is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
 * Samuel Beckett's first separately issued work, the poem Whoroscope, is published by Nancy Cunard's Hours Press in France.
 * George Moore publishes Aphrodite in Aulis and A Flood.
 * 'Æ' (George William Russell) publishes Enchantment, and Other Poems.

Football

 * League of Ireland
 * Winners: Bohemians
 * FAI Cup
 * Winners: Shamrock Rovers 1 – 0 Brideville

Golf

 * Irish Open is won by Charles Whitcombe (England).

Motor racing

 * Irish International Grand Prix is won by Rudolf Caracciola (Mercedes-Benz SSK)

Births

 * 4 January – Tras Honan, Fianna Fáil politician, twice Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann
 * 7 January – Justin Keating, senior Irish Labour Party politician, Teachta Dála, Cabinet Minister, Member of the European Parliament and member of Seanad Éireann (died 2009)
 * 12 January – Jennifer Johnston, novelist and playwright
 * 18 January – Breandán Ó hEithir, journalist and broadcaster working in Irish and English languages (died 1990)
 * 22 February – David Cremin, Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
 * 30 March – Fergus O'Brien, Fine Gael TD and Minister of State
 * 13 March – Don Cockburn, television newsreader (died 2017)
 * 1 April – Frank Cluskey, leader of the Irish Labour Party (died 1989)
 * 12 April – Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, peer and public servant (died 2003)
 * 26 April – Jack Fitzsimons, architect, member of Seanad Éireann and campaigner (died 2014)
 * 10 May – William McDermott, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Huancavélica, Peru
 * 13 June – Billy Ringrose, equestrian (died 2020)
 * 27 June – Enda McDonagh, priest (died 2021)
 * 28 June – William C. Campbell, parasitologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * 13 August – Frank Durkan, lawyer in the United States (died 2006)
 * 19 August – Frank McCourt, teacher and writer (died 2009)
 * 29 August – Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, Gaelic games commentator for Radio Telifís Éireann
 * 30 August – Kieran Crotty, Fine Gael TD
 * 9 September – Des Hanafin, Fianna Fáil politician, member of Seanad Éireann (died 2017)
 * 26 September – Joe Sherlock, Labour Party TD (died 2007)
 * 1 October – Richard Harris, actor (died 2002)
 * 5 October – Sean Potts, tin whistle player with The Chieftains (died 2014)
 * 11 October – Joan O'Hara, actress (died 2007)
 * 22 October – Philomena Lynott, entrepreneur and memoirist (died 2019)
 * 23 October – Thomas Flanagan, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Antonio (died 2019)
 * 4 November – Gerry Duffy, cricketer
 * 17 November – Brian Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister, senator and presidential candidate (died 1995)
 * 15 December – Edna O'Brien, novelist and short story writer
 * Full date unknown
 * Edward Delaney, sculptor
 * George Eogan, archaeologist, member of Seanad Éireann (died 2021)
 * Maeve Kelly, writer
 * Seán Ó Coisdealbha, poet, playwright and actor (died 2006)
 * Bertie Troy, priest, hurler and All-Ireland winning manager with Cork (died 2007)

Deaths

 * 26 September – Dick Fitzgerald, Kerry Gaelic footballer (born 1882)
 * 29 September – Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (born 1862)
 * 1 October – James Whiteside McCay, Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments (born 1864)
 * 31 October – Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony, Nationalist politician, barrister and philanthropist (born 1850)
 * 30 November – Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, labor and community organizer, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and socialist in the United States (born 1830)